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I think it is so true that the idea of beauty if constantly fluctuating. I think you made an excellent point by using the comparison of being pale and tan. I will also remember what we learned recently and how...

I think the topic on phobias is very interesting because of the vast majority of them. So many people have phobias of so many different things that may seem so silly and weird, although I am not surprised that a...

This is interesting because a lot of teenagers that got pregnant at my high school either had an older sibling who was also a teen mom and who's parents were teens when they had them. I think it does has...

I find this very interesting because when I think of people in vegetative states I don't really think of them as consciously aware of anything. If they are consciously aware of things it may be just as sad if not...

This is an interesting topic and the idea of teen moms are certainly popular in the media these days. I feel like a lot more kids are having kids these days even though their are many more ways to prevent...

What are the ingredients of having well-behaved, intelligent, socially expectable children? Most researchers along with most people would agree that having 2 parents that are still together, and who uses authoritative parenting styles would be the best way for a...

I think this is interesting because whenever I hear dogs barking at each other or birds chirping from tree to tree I imagine them communicating in their own "language." It obviously isn't as complicated as humans but I definitely think...

I think lucidity is very interesting because I remember being able to do this. I even remember one particular dream where I started to become conscious and didn't want the dream to end so I kept dreaming and controlled it...

I think this topic is interesting because I also had a hypnotist at my senior party. However every participant was not known to be an extrovert, actually quite a few were quiet kids. I was very skeptical of the hypnotist...

I think that it is really cool that they can measure the communications in our brain and find out how they differ from when we are awake and when we are asleep. This video clearly shows the difference in being...

I agree with you that this is a case of naive realism as well as the halo effect. That is why when such "beautiful" talented people do bad things we are shocked, this is because we don't actually see the...

It's crazy to think that this kind of stuff is actually out there and even crazier to think that people fall for it! Every diet ad I've ever seen is over reliant on anecdotes. The "users" of the products stating...

When hearing about the nature-nurture debate I often hear about criminal studies or personality differences and similarities in twins, but one very large debate concerning nature vs. nurture is that on homosexuality. Everyone has their own opinion on why...

I opened our Psychology text book to the table of contents and glanced over the titles of each chapter, looking for one that stuck out to me and seemed interesting. As I got toward the bottom I saw that chapter...

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it's interesting to think about this in a historical sense, as you referring. Our taste is subject to a change in lifestyles amongst us, and in our culture. Say for instance that because of mass production we are able to now have food all the time and the fear of starvation (for us University students at least), is very low, thus with this bounty of gratuitous consumption our tastes have changed, where voluptuous people were seen as healthy in the past, they are now seen as unhealthy in the new context of our consumerist culture (despite the fact, I must...

I think that being a homosexual is definitely NOT a choice. People are simply born that way, and society has ridiculed those people for doing so. In the article in the book, it states that there IS evidence of homosexuality being linked to differences in the brain, as has been previously stated. Also, homosexuality can be seen across species, and even early in human civilization. The only choice one can make on homosexuality that MAY be influenced by environment is our openness and acceptance towards it, but we cannot choose to be gay. We can choose how we view it...

I agree with others who have posted here.... I think that in a historical sense this is interesting. Now though I find it disturbing that our society has decided that people who are so thin that they might be unhealthy to be what our young girls are aspiring to be. I am happy that some modeling companies and magazines are finally putting their foot down even though I know that it will take a long time if at all before we see anyone normal looking gracing the cover of a magazine....

You really couldn't have said that more perfectly. It really is true the there shouldn't be just this one mass deciding what is beautiful. As you said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder so how could it have turned into "beauty is in the eye of the public"? Not to mention, there's also so many levels and variations of beauty. There's nature beauty, there's on-the-magazine beauty,there's Picasso and then Monet beauty, and finally, there's beauty in which you see with your heart rather than your eyes. And personally, I feel like the last one is the best one....

I totally agree with what you said about living a fairly fear-free life. It's nice to not have panic attacks when seeing something nasty. But it was interesting on what you said about how phobias could possible be genetically connected. Because, you have to wonder, how do those fears come up so suddenly? Cause as babies, we don't know what anything really is, so at that stage we shouldn't really be that afraid of things. And then even at the toddler and young child stage, that's the stage where we are the most curious and fear less. Probing and tasting...